Company fuel usage and rising prices

[stihl260]

Got an Email the other day at work and they have published the Companies annual Fuel spen for the past twelve months.

It was a whoping great ?9,000000 last year! WTF

Thats an awful lot of tesco points

I do over 50,000 miles a year for them, so i know i use alot of fuel.

The fact that i got a ?5 morrisons Fuel voucher within 3 weeks tells you that.

How many miles do other business users do and any idea of company spend on fuel?

[drawflex]

i put about ?170 in my van most weeks, limmited to shell, total, and texaco garages... but found using shell v-power diesel gives me double reward points

EDIT : I drive my van like i stole it

[tshirtman]

I'm working at a distribution warehouse, and they have there own diesel tank/pump, a tanker came last week to fill it, I asked the driver on the way out, how much he'd just put in the tank, a whopping 30.000 litres, and that will last them 2/3 weeks, I wouldn't like to see there fuel bill.

[gopher7]

i put about ?170 in my van most weeks, limmited to shell, total, and texaco garages... but found using shell v-power diesel gives me double reward points

EDIT : I drive my van like i stole it

Did you steal it.????

[drawflex]

I'm working at a distribution warehouse, and they have there own diesel tank/pump, a tanker came last week to fill it, I asked the driver on the way out, how much he'd just put in the tank, a whopping 30.000 litres, and that will last them 2/3 weeks, I wouldn't like to see there fuel bill.

My firm's also got a 30,000 litre fuel tank/pump but ours get filled with red diesel, which is about 50p a litre.

I work for a firm hiring out mobile truck mounted platforms and anything over 3.5tonnes is exempt from fuel duty.



Also means i can get hold of the odd 'bit' of red

Did you steal it.????

no mate.. just my driving style

[badapple]

My taxi company now has 28 full time drivers,7 part timers & 4 company cars.
On average the full time drivers & company cars fill up three times a week at a cosy of about ?70.00 per time.
(average 143.9 per litre diesel)

32 X ?70.00 X 3 = ?6720.00 per week.

6720.00 X 52 = ?349440.00 per year.

& that not including the part timers.

Thank ~~~~ I don't have to pay out all of that!

[tshirtman]

out of curiosity, I wonder if companies like the one I'm contracted to, gets there fuel cheaper for bulk buying.

[dazbat1]

fuel prices

I thought red was only for farm vehicles ?

[barrowmanandrew]

depending on where im working i can do anything from 100 miles a day to 450 if im working in aberdeen,
we are not allowed to fill up in anything other that supermarket stations now.
company say its saving a fortune doing this, which makes me wonder why they didnt insist on it years ago

[drawflex]

I thought red was only for farm vehicles ?

No mate, they're classed as specialist heavy plant, along with mobile cranes and mobile concrete pumps... as long as the boom section is non-removable and they weigh over 3.5tonnes... no fuel duty

Copied from industry news mag :

Truck-mounted platforms will not be
banned from using red diesel following
representations to the Treasury by
IPAF.
Amendments to the Excepted Vehicle
Schedule relating to Hydrocarbon Oils
will come into effect on 1 April 2007.
These will see mobile cranes, truckmounted
access platforms and mobile
concrete pumps with a revenue weight
exceeding 3.5t allowed to use red
diesel.

[Meat-Head]

No mate, they're classed as specialist heavy plant, along with mobile cranes and mobile concrete pumps... as long as the boom section is non-removable and they weigh over 3.5tonnes... no fuel duty

ON TOPIC:

There is a company in M/C who looked into their own tank, worked out, somebody, spills or steals two litres, game over no saving.

There was a company here in M/C who had a load of lorry's xxxxx's lorry was the best in the fleet, funny thing is he ALWAYS takes 25 litres of diesel home! What do the others take!




*CONFUSED*

do you have a link to offical website?

The boss of M-H-M is now thinking of strapping a forktruck to the back of the 1 ton pick up?
Thanks

Meat.

[drawflex]

ON TOPIC:


*CONFUSED*

do you have a link to offical website?

The boss of M-H-M is now thinking of strapping a forktruck to the back of the 1 ton pick up?
Thanks

Meat.

Here's the 2007 ammendment to the 1979 fuel tax act

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/93/pdfs/uksiem_20070093_en.pdf

And here's the updated fuel notice on customs website
HM Revenue & Customs
There is a small VAT-type tax put on it.. but it's nowhere near like the duty for road-vehicles... red diesel is about 50p / litre

it's pretty tight.. they've thought of everthing to stop people say.. strapping a forklift to a pickup

Easiest way to dodge fuel duty would be to add a tar-spraying modification to your pick-up, making it a road surfacing vehicle and would qualify it to be exempt, but you'd still need a lisence to use red-diesel on the road, and to get that you'd have to convince them it was a permanent modification, and the vehicle would be used only for road-surfacing purposes.. you'd also likley get a suprise visit from the tax auditors who'd go through your vehicle and fuel records with a microscope..... good luck with that